The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 71
This was the very thing Dilaram had prayed for.
Who acts: This, Dilaram · What happens: be, pray · To what, where: thing
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Dilaram), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 thing | advmod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Dilaram | Dilaram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 prayed | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 prayed | aux |
| 8 | prayed | pray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 prayed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pray | past · perfect | Dilaram | the thing not said here | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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